Gene Testing for Breast Cancer: Who Should Have it Done?

It was an extraordinarily public declaration of an incredibly private experience from a couple that relishes in their privacy away from the glamor and glitz of Hollywood.

When Angelina Jolie’s op-ed story that she wrote that appeared in the May 12 edition of the New York Times about her double mastectomy, she not only inspired some women, but she spearheaded a new awareness about gene testing.

So what is gene testing and who should get it done?

Dr. Stephanie Graff, an oncologist at Menorah Medical Center appeared on Wednesday’s FOX 4 Morning Show to explain more about gene testing.